Public Procurement Intl
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Around the world, governments are embracing “green procurement” – environmentally sustainable strategies to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and other forms of pollution. A number of webinars we have held at GW Law School, including a July 2024 series on emerging international best practices, confirmed that there are many parallels between these “green procurement” strategies.
FedTech Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009. FICAM supports modernized security policies and solutions, allowing risk-based decision-making, automating identity and access management processes and moving access protections closer to
American City & Country
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The 2024 presidential election is in two weeks, and early and absentee voting is already well under way for many states in an election that, by all accounts, promises to be a close race. This past week, TargetSmart, a Washington D.C.-based data firm, launched a dashboard to track 2024 absentee and early voting across states and counties. Using data generated by the new tool, American City & County pinpointed which 10 counties across the U.S. have cast the largest number of early and absentee
Federal News Network
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The Army is putting a lot of focus on fixing its housing this year. The service has allocated $2.1 million for various barracks projects. The plan includes constructing six new barracks, undertaking 20 renovation and modernization efforts and funding full sustainment of all barracks. The Army has also contracted third-party organizations to inspect barracks to provide an unbiased assessment of the state of the barracks.
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FedInsider
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | 2:00PM EST | 1 Hour | 1 CPE While developments in artificial intelligence may get all the headlines at the moment, it is just one more complication for the ever-evolving cybersecurity field. The Gartner top cybersecurity trends and strategies for 2024 reflect the wide variety of pressures cybersecurity professionals face, including the emergence of generative AI (GenAI) as a mainstream capability, the challenge of managing security risks in a constantly changing thr
FedScoop
OCTOBER 21, 2024
A top technology trade group is nudging the leadership of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the House Oversight and Accountability committees to advance a bill aimed at modernizing the federal procurement process. In a letter sent Monday to Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the Alliance for Digital Innovation threw its support behind the Federal Improvement in Technology Procurement Act ( H.R. 9595 ),
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Redstone Government Consulting
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The Department of Defense (DoD) Comptroller announced the new Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) Director on October 21, 2024 , as Ms. Jennifer Desautel. Ms. Desautel was previously the Assistant Director, Policy and Quality was responsible for the formation, development and issuance of contract audit policy and quality assurance within DCAA and its over 4,000 employees in nearly 300 locations.
SmallGovCon
OCTOBER 21, 2024
We are excited to announce that Nicole Pottroff will be attending the Fall NAPEX conference in Washington DC and will be presenting on legal updates on October 30. The conference gives agencies and primes the opportunity to promote supplier diversity programs and learn how the APEX Accelerators can partner and assist in meeting contracting goals. The Association of Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (APTAC) is the professional organization of and for the DoD APEX Accelerators nationwide.
WashngtonExec
OCTOBER 21, 2024
In this virtual video panel series, WashingtonExec sits down with industry and public sector leaders to discuss current challenges, innovations and initiatives top of mind across the government IT landscape. WashingtonExec’s Amanda Ziadeh sits down with Matthew Ferraro, senior counselor for cybersecurity and emerging technology to the secretary of homeland security and the executive director [.
AWS Public Sector
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Introduction In Modernizing tax systems with AWS , we briefly touched upon infrastructure and application modernization using microservices and serverless architectures. We hear from multiple tax and labor agencies about their desire to move to API-based architectures and adopt new technologies. In this post, we dive deeper into these areas and discuss benefits, approaches, and best practices for building modern tax and unemployment insurance (UI) applications using microservices.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Andy Makridis, for chief operating officer at the CIA, has joined DXC Technology as the top adviser for the public sector. Reporting to Chris Drumgoole, managing director of global infrastructure services, Makridis will use his expertise and leadership experience to strengthen collaboration with public sector clients, DXC said Thursday.
Federal News Network
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The Army wants to create a huge new ID/IQ contract to modernize the way it buys and builds software — and it’s not wasting any time. Just a few months after the idea was first announced, the service has already issued a request for information and two draft requests for proposals. It’s going to be a tight turnaround for potential bidders to submit their comments on the Army’s latest draft, issued on Oct. 11; the deadline is this Friday.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Firefly Aerospace will provide its Alpha rocket to support True Anomaly‘s Victus Haze Tactically Responsive Space mission. The Victus Haze subcontract covers three Alpha rocket launches, starting with True Anomaly’s Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle in 2025, with two more missions planned between 2025 and 2027, True Anomaly said Thursday.
FedTech Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2024
While private sector organizations are racing to implement use cases for artificial intelligence, federal agencies are carefully weighing the opportunities they can leverage to take advantage of the emerging technology. The federal government is a bit more hamstrung when it comes to AI. Limited budgets and underskilled staffs are challenges that private organizations must contend with, but not at quite the same level as federal agencies do.
GovCon Wire
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Boeing a potential nine-year, $277 million contract to help develop electro-optics and directed energy technologies to support the Space Electro-Optics Division’s mission of advancing the country’s space superiority capabilities.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Ronald Silbermann announced on LinkedIn Friday that he has been appointed vice president of manufacturing and spectrum superiority at CACI International, transitioning from his role as general manager at the Virginia-based professional services and IT company. Silbermann brings extensive leadership experience, with expertise in manufacturing and program management as well as in expanding operational capacity.
GovCon Wire
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index rose 0.33% Friday to $5,617.83, its highest close on record. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, registered a 2.04% week-on-week gain. It also matched the six-week winning streaks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Phoenix Semiconductor announced that Lockheed Martin Ventures, or LMV, has made a strategic investment in the company and its new technology on remanufacturing legacy chips no longer in production but remain critical for users, including the Department of Defense.
GovCon Wire
OCTOBER 21, 2024
John Boyle, a C-level executive with extensive experience in federal contracting and technology sectors, was appointed CEO of Lawelawe Defense Inc., a Native Hawaiian-owned Small Business Administration certified 8(a) small disadvantaged business, GovCon Wire has learned.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded Veterans Engineering a $50 million contract to improve the agency’s enterprise-wide endpoint security, compliance monitoring and software assurance capabilities. Under the agreement, enterprise visibility support services will be deployed across VA-managed platforms, including on-premises, edge, hybrid, cloud environments, end-user, network and mobile devices, VE said Thursday.
GovCon Wire
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Eric Holstrom, a space and defense business development professional, has been appointed vice president of business development for national security space at Astrion, according to a LinkedIn post the executive shared Sunday. Holstrom previously worked at Axient as the vice president of growth for the company’s space segment.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Aaron Wagner, an experienced strategy and innovation executive, has been appointed chief strategy officer at Integer Technologies. Integer said Thursday Wagner will oversee the company’s strategic growth in advanced technology development, focusing on expanding and delivering its technology portfolio to clients in the defense, intelligence and commercial sectors.
GovCon Wire
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Jessica Hersey has joined Red River as senior vice president of business development for government technology services. She confirmed her new role in a post on LinkedIn Saturday. Hersey brings to Red River over 25 years of experience in the government contracting industry.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Technology consulting firm SkillStorm Commercial Services and Tenova, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, have established a joint venture and partnership under the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege Program aimed at addressing the technological skills gap in the public sector workforce.
GovCon Wire
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Advanced engineering and technology company Amentum over the last year merged with two Jacobs businesses to form what Raymond James Equity Capital Markets Managing Director Brian Gesuale calls the “biggest solutions provider in this space, if you look at scale against all the peers in the public markets.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Google’s Chris Corde and Archana Ramamoorthy recently announced the unveiling of updates to Google Cloud security offerings at the Google Public Sector Summit.
FedScoop
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission does not use any legacy IT, having either decommissioned or modernized all of its systems, according to the independent agency’s chief information officer. In an interview with FedScoop last week, NRC CIO Scott Flanders said that even though the agency has turned the page on systems defined by the Government Accountability Office as “ outdated or obsolete ,” there is still work to be done for modernization and evaluation of the agency’s technology stack.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index demonstrated significant growth last week, increasing by 2.00% and closing with an average of $5,617.83. GovCon Index is an aggregate index that tracks and displays stock market data from 30 major players in the government contracting field.
Kluwer Arbitration
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Kicking off Hong Kong Arbitration Week 2024, Eversheds Sutherland hosted a thought-provoking panel discussion on “12 Angry Robots and Crowd-Sourced Dispute Resolution – Justice in the Digital Age” on 21 October 2024. The panel delved into (i) the mechanisms and challenges of dispute resolution in the decentralized space, and (ii) the integration of artificial intelligence (“AI”) into judicial systems and arbitration proceedings and the underlying legal and ethical considerations.
Government Contracts
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and his loyal right hand Michael McClain engaged in an eight-year "campaign of bribery," leveraging his public office and leadership roles to steer business to Madigan's property tax law firm, enrich his allies with do-nothing jobs and maintain his considerable political power, prosecutots told an Illinois federal jury Monday.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Lockheed Martin is the largest defense contractor in the United States, with a total of $61.4 billion in government contracts in fiscal year 2023, according to the Pentagon. In the U.S. government contracting industry, Lockheed Martin is at the forefront of technological advancement and defense innovation.
Government Contracts
OCTOBER 21, 2024
A Ninth Circuit judge on Monday blasted a healthcare contractor's policy that denied hospital treatment for a woman in a Washington jail who died from a ruptured intestine, but nevertheless questioned if a $24 million punitive damage jury award was excessive.
ExecutiveBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Since its inception, the prestigious Wash100 Award has sought to highlight federal leaders and government contracting industry executives whose leadership skills have served as a guiding force in the field. The coveted award is now the most elite accolade in the GovCon space, but how did it grow to this level of prominence?
Government Contracts
OCTOBER 21, 2024
An Avangrid Inc. unit's responsibility or lack thereof for cleaning up contaminated former power plant hinges on whether a partial consent order from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, or DEEP, is legally a contract, a state court judge signaled Monday.
University of Bristol
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Albert Sanchez-Graells , Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School This blog post is based on the paper that was jointly awarded the Best Paper Prize Award 2024 by the Society of Legal Scholars. The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector.
Government Contracts
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday announced the introduction of legislation to buy Capital One Arena for $87.5 million to keep the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards in town, after months of negotiations with Sidley Austin LLP advising the arena owner.
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